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Parks officials said beaches will be closed to swimming, bathing and surfing on Tuesday.

The New York Post reported police issued $80 tickets to at least four surfers at the famed summertime Rockaway Beach surf spot.

An emergency worker who dived into the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island to save a swimmer who violated the ban told the newspaper the current felt like a "300-pound guy" pulling him back out to sea."

At least three deaths associated with Hermine have been reported as the storm moves along the East Coast.

Authorities said Michael Woodrum, 30, was trying to remove a tree that fell on U.S. Highway 17-A near Cottageville, South Carolina, on Friday when he was struck by a car. Officials said Woodrum died at a hospital on Saturday.

High winds tipped over an 18-wheeler on Saturday, killing its driver and shutting down the U.S. 64 bridge in North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Earlier in Florida, a homeless man was killed by a falling tree.

Hermine rose over the Gulf of Mexico and hit Florida on Friday as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved across Georgia.

Dennis Feltgen of the National Hurricane Center said Sunday, "We're not looking at a landfall," adding Hermine is just sitting and pushing the water up along the coast making storm surge a great concern.